 Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still?  Poetry of Byron: Chosen and Arranged - Page 66by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 778 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | 1821 - 676 pages
...On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is túneles« now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! Must rcc but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush...the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing , suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must u>e but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...days more blest? Must me but blush ?— Our fathers hli-ii. Earth! vender back from out thy breaet A remnant of our Spartan dead ' Of the three hundred grant but three, To make anew Thermopylae! What, silent still! andsilent all ' Ah ' no ;— the voices of the dead. Souud like... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 786 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like tbis. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae .Don Jua». SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where... | |
 | 1823 - 784 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like this. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. Don Juan. SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where once,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...suifuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must ice but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylso ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must vie but blush ?—Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 504 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ! For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bljst ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast Of the three... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush?—Our lathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of... | |
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